After what seems like a very long time without seeing many interesting stories in the industry media - out of the blue I've come across two this week that I think deserve mention.
Michael Conn has a piece in the LA Times where he uses that mainstream vehicle to deliver some stern words against animal rights activists who resort to violence and terrorist tactics.
His book goes much further into the topic but I think this article does a great job of getting the point across.
And our friend Steve Hunt is interviewed in Networkworld.com
It's refreshing to hear someone as passionate about the future of the industry as Steve is. I think he's spot on about how the large physical security providers are out of touch with the end users - and how most integrators are just fueling the problem by basically taking orders for equipment and bolting it in. The only thing I'd like to add to that assessment is how the problem is compounded by the flood of sales reps jumping off the IT market ship on to the physical security barge.
I've been away from writing too long myself because of workload issues but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.
Michael Conn has a piece in the LA Times where he uses that mainstream vehicle to deliver some stern words against animal rights activists who resort to violence and terrorist tactics.
His book goes much further into the topic but I think this article does a great job of getting the point across.
And our friend Steve Hunt is interviewed in Networkworld.com
It's refreshing to hear someone as passionate about the future of the industry as Steve is. I think he's spot on about how the large physical security providers are out of touch with the end users - and how most integrators are just fueling the problem by basically taking orders for equipment and bolting it in. The only thing I'd like to add to that assessment is how the problem is compounded by the flood of sales reps jumping off the IT market ship on to the physical security barge.
I've been away from writing too long myself because of workload issues but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.
